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cn coin 6472

Connected to Type

CN Type 5643 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 395-360 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Griffin leaping left, forepart and forpaws raised, with feathered wings, tail curling and open beak.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse Δ-Ι-ΟΝΥ-ΣΑ-Σ
Design
Head of bearded Dionysus, right, wearing ivy wreath; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Dionysas (I) 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
stater 🔍  
Standard: Aeginetan
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
23 mm
Weight
12.40 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241712

Provenience: 1922/74 - Vorbesitzer Seltman

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Citation

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 213, nr. 289a, pl. 16  ❐

Boutin, Catalogue des monnaies grecques antiques de l'ancienne collection Pozzi: monnaies frappées en Europe, Maastricht 1979 p. 123, nr. 2270, pl. 99  ❐

Literature

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 68, nr. 90 ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 213-214, nr. 287-292, pl. 16 (c. 411/410-386/385 BC, aeginetan standard)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 119-126 ❐

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cn coin 6472, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6472 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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